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Readiness is a traffic signal: if it fails, the pod is removed from service endpoints and users are not routed to it. Liveness is a health check for the process itself: if it fails, Kubernetes restarts the container. A pod can be alive but not ready, and that is often the correct state during startup or dependency warm-up.

If processing exceeds max.poll.interval.ms, the group may consider the member failed and reassign its partitions; a later commit from the old generation is rejected. Reduce records per poll, process with bounded workers while preserving partition ordering, pause/resume appropriately, or adjust the interval based on measured worst-case work. Keep the fix from merely delaying failure detection indefinitely.